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Crimean Gothic
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| Crimean Gothic | ||
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| Spoken in: | formerly Crimea | |
| Language extinction: | by the 18th century(?) | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Germanic East Germanic Gothic Crimean Gothic |
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| Writing system: | originally, probably Runic alphabet, later Gothic, Greek, and Latin alphabets | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | got | |
| ISO 639-3: | got — Gothic | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Crimean Gothic was a dialect of Gothic that was spoken by the Crimean Goths in some isolated locations in Crimea (now in Ukraine) perhaps until as late as the 18th century.
Few fragments of the Crimean Gothic language have survived: All our knowledge is based on a letter by the 16th century Flemish ambassador Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, which gives a list of some eighty words and a bit of insight into its grammar.
Crimean Gothic is almost universally recognized as Gothic on the grounds of its phonological features: the word ada "egg", for instance, shows the typical Gothic "strengthening" of Proto-Germanic *-jj- into -ddj- (as in Ulfilian Gothic iddja "went" from PGmc. *ejjon), being from PGmc. *ajja-.
There are several regular correspondences between Ulfilian Gothic and Crimean Gothic, including UG /sk-/ > CG /ʃ-/ (as in CG schedit, schietn, from skeiniþ, skiutan ["it shines", "ibid."])
The Vikings of Gotland may have discovered their presence, or maintained contact with them, since the Gutasaga relates that a third of Gotland's inhabitants had to leave the island and settle in the land of the Greeks.
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